by Rob Jolles | Dec 2, 2016 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Public Speaking, Self Help
No matter how talented one may appear, every presenter typically has a few habits he or she is trying to break. I’m referring to the habits that just don’t seem to want to go away, such as body rocking, pen twisting, lectern clutching, or the dreaded “umm and ah”...
by Rob Jolles | Nov 18, 2016 | Coaching and Mentoring, Motivation, Public Speaking
One of the unique challenges of delivering workshops is working effectively with the various personalities that populate your audiences. In most workshops and in some presentations, it’s not unusual for there to be a lot of contact between speakers and their...
by Rob Jolles | Oct 7, 2016 | Coaching and Mentoring, Corporate Communications, Motivation
This past weekend, we were all treated to some amazing golf as the United States won the Ryder Cup. The Ryder Cup is a golf tournament played every two years, and it pits the best golfers from the United States against the best golfers from Europe in a series of...
by Rob Jolles | Jun 17, 2016 | Motivation
They say that in every life a little rain must fall. This is a story about a man and his father, and a little bit of rain… In the spring of 2003, my family and I came face-to-face with what most would call a disaster. Our disaster was defined as a severe fire...
by Rob Jolles | Jun 10, 2016 | Coaching and Mentoring, irony, Motivation, Self Help, success
“I could have told you, but you had to learn this lesson on your own.” How many times did you hear that phrase as a child, or as a young adult? How many times have you heard it as an adult? I’m not very fond of that phrase. Wait, that’s not strong enough: I detest...
by Rob Jolles | Apr 15, 2016 | Coaching and Mentoring, irony, Motivation, Self Help
It turns out you can learn a lesson or two from a squirrel. When you stop and think about it, the squirrel is a pretty amazing animal; nature thought about almost everything when putting this furry creature together. Squirrels are fast, strong, agile, clever, and the...
